Land rights in India : policies, movements and challenges
Bhagat-Ganguly, Varsha Ed.
Land rights in India : policies, movements and challenges - New Delhi Routledge 2016 - xxi,301p.
Contents
List of tables Viii
List of figures X
Contributors Xi
Foreword by Chetan Singh Xiii
Acknowledgement Xviii
List of abbreviations XiX
1 Introduction 1
VARSHA BHAGAT-GANGU
PART I
Issues of land dependents 13
2 'If we had land, we would be human': the implications
of landlessness in a Bihar village 15
ANAND CHAKRAVARTI
3 Reconfiguring ideas of land, river and forest in
the context of the Indira Sagar Polavaram National Project on Godavari
4 Politics of commons: power relations and intersecting
gender, caste and tribe contestations 49
SOMA K. PARTHASARATHY
5 Is there no alternative? Land laws and tribal rights in Odisha 65
VIDHYADAS
6 Examining change in the nature and composition of land lease arrangements in India:an exploratory analysis 80
R. VIJAY ANDY. SREENIVASULU
PART II
Revisiting land reforms from a social justice
Perspective 101
7 The political economy of land reform in India:
retrospect and prospect 103
MANGESH KULKARNI
8 Land rights through land reforms: a shift in the vision and social transformation CHANDRASHEKHARA B. DA..MLE 119
9 Issues and challenges of land dependents: the case of dalits in Uttar Pradesh
PRASHANT K TRIVEDI 134
10 Revisiting land reforms: Kerala experience
SUMASCARIA 146
PART III
Reviewing existing policies and laws 161
11 Questioning eminent domain: expanding the ambit
Of land rights 163
ANUSHA
12 The Land Acquisition Act 2013 and the livelihood losers
WALTER FERNANDES 179
13 Asserting community forest rights on forest land in
India: emerging paradigms under the Forest Rights Act 195
MEENAL TATPATI AND NEEMA PATHAK-BROOME
PART IV
People's movements on land question 213
14 People's response to land dispossession: comparative
analysis of movements across India 215
SUITKUMAR
15 Revisiting Bhoodan and Gramdan in the context
of land rights and social transformation 230
PARAG CHOLKAR
PARTV
Issues and challenges of land governance 247
16 Land governance: issues, challenges and way forward 249
B . B. SRIVASTAVA
17 The state and land records modernisation: issues and challenges 268
PRADEEP N AYAK
Afterword 285
Glossary 289
Index 293
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Land rights in India : policies, movements and challenges - New Delhi Routledge 2016 - xxi,301p.
Contents
List of tables Viii
List of figures X
Contributors Xi
Foreword by Chetan Singh Xiii
Acknowledgement Xviii
List of abbreviations XiX
1 Introduction 1
VARSHA BHAGAT-GANGU
PART I
Issues of land dependents 13
2 'If we had land, we would be human': the implications
of landlessness in a Bihar village 15
ANAND CHAKRAVARTI
3 Reconfiguring ideas of land, river and forest in
the context of the Indira Sagar Polavaram National Project on Godavari
4 Politics of commons: power relations and intersecting
gender, caste and tribe contestations 49
SOMA K. PARTHASARATHY
5 Is there no alternative? Land laws and tribal rights in Odisha 65
VIDHYADAS
6 Examining change in the nature and composition of land lease arrangements in India:an exploratory analysis 80
R. VIJAY ANDY. SREENIVASULU
PART II
Revisiting land reforms from a social justice
Perspective 101
7 The political economy of land reform in India:
retrospect and prospect 103
MANGESH KULKARNI
8 Land rights through land reforms: a shift in the vision and social transformation CHANDRASHEKHARA B. DA..MLE 119
9 Issues and challenges of land dependents: the case of dalits in Uttar Pradesh
PRASHANT K TRIVEDI 134
10 Revisiting land reforms: Kerala experience
SUMASCARIA 146
PART III
Reviewing existing policies and laws 161
11 Questioning eminent domain: expanding the ambit
Of land rights 163
ANUSHA
12 The Land Acquisition Act 2013 and the livelihood losers
WALTER FERNANDES 179
13 Asserting community forest rights on forest land in
India: emerging paradigms under the Forest Rights Act 195
MEENAL TATPATI AND NEEMA PATHAK-BROOME
PART IV
People's movements on land question 213
14 People's response to land dispossession: comparative
analysis of movements across India 215
SUITKUMAR
15 Revisiting Bhoodan and Gramdan in the context
of land rights and social transformation 230
PARAG CHOLKAR
PARTV
Issues and challenges of land governance 247
16 Land governance: issues, challenges and way forward 249
B . B. SRIVASTAVA
17 The state and land records modernisation: issues and challenges 268
PRADEEP N AYAK
Afterword 285
Glossary 289
Index 293
9781138667976
333.73 / BHA